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If you like your casino games quick and easy try Red Dog

By admin on 2012-01-21 11:48:05

For those online casino gamblers who enjoy quick, simple casino games which require no particular skill and rely purely on chance, a few online casinos, including Bwin on our list, offer a casino game known as Red Dog, or sometimes Between the Sheets. Red Dog is an online card game played against the house using a standard 52 card deck which is shuffled after each hand so that there is no advantage to be gained by attempting to memorise the cards. First the player must decide how much they want to stake, and place an ante bet on the hand. Each hand comprises just three cards, with the first two cards dealt face up, followed by a third card dealt face down and normally positioned between the first two cards. The object of the game is to bet whether the third blind card has a value between the two cards that have been dealt face up, which would be a winning hand. Please note that the ace is always high in Red Dog. If the player believes he may have a winning hand, he now has the opportunity to raise his stake. If not he can call and the ante bet remains in force. The third card is then turned over and if it is a winning hand the player receives a pay out which is usually even money. There are however two situations which may result in a higher pay out. Firstly, if the two face up cards have a spread between them of 3 or less, a winning hand is clearly less likely but the pay out is usually higher. Then there is the situation where the two face up cards are a pair. Clearly it is not possible for the third card to have a value between them, but if the third card is the same value this constitutes a winning hand which is normally paid out at odds of 11/1. If not, the hand is declared void, or a ‘Push’ and the stake is returned. Similarly, if the two face up cards are consecutive numbers, for example an 8 and a 9, it is again impossible to have a winning hand and the stake is returned. As with any new casino game, we recommend that you play in free play mode until you are comfortable with how the game is played, but Red Dog is great fun so click our Bwin link and have a go.